Virtually all current vehicles today operate an internal network called the CAN bus. Different modules (or ECUs – electronic control units) in the car communicate with each other via this network (e.g. engine, transmission, dashboard, etc.). In this post [...]

In F#, you can’t overload a let–bound function, and whilst it’s a hindrance sometimes you can generally work around it easily enough since you can still overload members of a class. All you need to do is to wrap the module and constituent functions into a[...]

A few years ago I gave birth to the validation framework that I felt was uniquely capable of addressing complex …Continue reading →

I have been back for about a week now, after nearly three weeks on the road, talking about F# all over the US. The first day I woke up in my own bed, my first thought was “where am I again? And where am I speaking tonight?”, now life is slowly getting bac[...]

First of all I’d like to offer my sincere apologies to those who have asked me to update my benchmark numbers following the release of Json.NET 5.0.6, it took me a long time to clear some of my backlogs and only just got around to it, sorry for the waitin[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Canopy 0.8.0 was released with PhantomJS support. Brahma.FSharp(F# quotation to OpenCL translator) is available on NuGet. Will Smith embedded FSI in Quake3 (part 2). Paris F# User Gro[...]

Some weeks ago, Microsoft Research announced NLP toolkit called MSR SPLAT. It is time to play with it and take a look what it can do. Statistical Parsing and Linguistic Analysis Toolkit is a linguistic analysis toolkit. Its main goal is to allow easy acce[...]

Let's look at what F# and Haskell can offer us while reimplementing grouping consecutive integers in C# algorithm. F#: Haskell: For my current taste, the Haskell version is more readable due to the awesome separate type annotation and to the lovely Erlan[...]

In Dart there is an interesting language feature called ‘Factory Constructors’, which effectively allows you to override the default behaviour when using the new keyword – instead of always creating a new instance the factory constructor is merely require[...]

There are a lot of interesting programming languages out there, but downloading and setting up the environment can be very time consuming when you just want to try one out. The good news is that you can try out many languages in your browser straight away[...]